Defining what "coding" means now, and how quickly we fall off the capability cliff seems increasingly important.

Today my "coding" sessions often enough begin with real life problems, where I discuss domain or inter-domain things, ranging from business, economics, psychology, etc. Being able to do all of that with one model is something I am willing to pay a premium for.

Of course not having to pay the premium, because the routing is smart or whatever, would be great. I just don't want to have to think about it.

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andriy_koval 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Today my "coding" sessions often enough begin with real life problems

intuition is that your sessions consists of 10% of domain related reasoning, and 90% of code plumbing. Those 90% could be moved to cheap and efficient specialized and focused model.

	▲	jstummbillig an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Possibly! It's just hard to reason about from the outside. When does the model benefit from all the ambient knowledge? Idk. Regardless, it's fairly obvious to me that none of what I do now will require "frontier models" for much longer. Models are getting better more quickly than my problems are getting harder.

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tonyhart7 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

but that is not model problem

most agentic coding app can use powerful model for planning/reasoning then use "budget" model to do ground work